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user877329
Asked: 2018-06-04 00:12:09 +0800 CST

gnome-specimen replacement

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It appears that the font preview tool gnome-specimen has been removed from 18.04. A quick search makes it look like it is outdated. Are there an replacement packages that I can use instead? Kfontview is present, but that would require me to pull the entire plasma desktop:

Command kfontview not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install plasma-desktop

I am not happy to do install another DE (currently using Xfce). I have disk space, but I want to save time when upgradeing packages 2 DEs => more upgrades to install.

18.04 font-manager

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS you can use any tool from list below:

    • GNOME Font Viewer

      sudo apt-get install gnome-font-viewer

    • GTK+ Font Manager

      sudo apt-get install font-manager

      You can launch it with font-manager, it looks like:

      <code>font-manager</code>

    • GWaterfall

      sudo apt-get install gwaterfall

      You can launch it with waterfall, it looks like:

      GWaterfall

    • MATE Font Viewer

      sudo apt-get install mate-control-center

      You can launch it with mate-font-viewer, it looks like:

      enter image description here

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  2. After some research I found the best solution: fontvuer

    Features:

    • sample text can be changed
    • shows fonts that are available for the script (e.g. cyrillic) that you use

    Install by:

    sudo snap install fontvuer --edge

    Use by:

    fontvuer

    See details in this very good answer.

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  3. Opcion Font Viewer allows comparing fonts with custom text, and it only requires Java to work.

    screenshot

    For running the jar package, in the terminal enter:

    java -jar [fileName]
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